I've tried on two separate machines, one with oss_em10k1x and one with snd_hdaudio, so it doesn't seem to be driver/card specific, but rather an issue with OSSv4, in general, and VLC.

vlc starts up, claims to open /dev/dsp, but it doesn't stream any audio. If I connect to the stream from another machine with mplayer, I get "Audio: no sound", though the video displays fine. vmix0-invu on the system doing the streaming doesn't show any activity, no matter what recording device is selected. Even if I select 'vol' as the recording device when playing an mp3 (and vmix0-outvu is happily showing the audio stream being played), vmix0-invu remains still.

audiovox wrote:What would be the problem to just switching drivers permanently?

It seems that those, who do not like to deal with problems, prefer to use Mac OS (if they can afford it).For example, the infamous creator of PulseAudio and SystemD seems to be using Mac OS rather than Linux viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4153&start=15#p17379This might be true for many Linux developers, especially, Ubuntu developers.Imagine a kind of "bad joke": to create problems for others to make them busy with "solving stupid problems".It might be very amusing for sadomasochists, perhaps.

Sadomasochism broadly refers to the receiving of pleasure — often sexual — from acts involving the infliction or receiving of pain or humiliation. The name originates from two authors on the subject, Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism